PRIMARY SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST: A RARE CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW

Ngô Thị Tuyết Hạnh1,2, Phạm Quang Thông3, Phạm Thị Như Diễm1,, Lưu Đức Tùng1, Bùi Phương Quỳnh1
1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
2 Nguyễn Tri Phương Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City
3 Cho Ray Hospital

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Abstract

Squamous cell carcinoma is known as a malignant tumor of the skin and other organs surrounded by squamous cells, but it is a rare entity in the breast. We report a fifty-five-year-old female patient, who presented with a rapidly growing, painful breast mass. The clinical and ultrasound showed that there was an infection well-circumscribed cyst lesion. The lesion was excised, and the pathological diagnosis was primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast, with no involvement with the breast and nipple skin. No abnormality in other organs was found. Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast may be derived from chronic inflammation of the breast, breast abscess, or normal breast tissue through metaplasia. Therefore, it is necessary to do a pathological examination of all benign abnormalities in the breast.

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